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CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y. A cross-country search reunited a desperate Cortlandt Manor father with his 10-month-old son, after his mother took the baby and fled to California, bound for her native country, the Philippines, according to the mans lawyer.
On Thursday, Dominick Perruccio, 41, found an empty house and a note from his wife saying she had left and taken their son, Anthony, to Chicago. State Police were notified, and on Friday the man made a desperate plea for his wife to return with their baby on a local TV news channel.
Evelyn Perruccio, 40, was found at a Los Angeles airport by private investigators hired by Perruccio, and she was served with an emergency court order, giving full legal and physical custody of the child to his father. Evelyn Perruccio was apprehended the next day at a train station by FBI investigators, and the child was taken into Californian child protective custody, said David MacCartney, the mans lawyer.
Dominick Perruccio flew out of New York on Sunday morning, arriving home with Anthony around 2 a.m. Monday morning, in time to make a family court appearance at 9 a.m. the same day.
Hes relieved, and extremely grateful to law enforcement personnel who secured the safe return of Anthony, said MacCartney.
According to Tracey Everson, a spokesperson for the Westchester County District Attorneys office, the office will not be filing charges, Its really a family court matter, she said.
According to the plea made by Dominick Perruccio on a local TV news channel, Evelyn had been under stress before she had taken the baby, and had lost both of her parents.
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